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Inchcape To Pay $20 Million For Overbilling Navy

Tuesday, May 29th, 2018

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Inchcape To Pay $20 Million For Overbilling Navy

This article was updated with a statement from Inchcape.Inchcape Shipping Services Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries agreed to pay $20 million to resolve allegations they knowingly overbilled the U.S. Navy in ship husbanding services from 2005 to 2014.A Justice Department lawsuit alleged the marine services contractor knowingly overbilled the Navy for services including providing ships with food, subsistence items, waste removal, telephone services, ship-to-shore transportation, force protection services, and local transportation over nearly a decade.Inchcape provided these services to the…

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